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The common cubit was divided into 6 palms × 4 fingers = 24 digits. [2] Royal cubits added a palm for 7 palms × 4 fingers = 28 digits. [3] These lengths typically ranged from 44.4 to 52.92 cm (1 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in to 1 ft 8 + 13 ⁄ 16 in), with an ancient Roman cubit being as long as 120 cm (3 ft 11 in).
Much greater detail is elaborated for the description of the supporting bases (Hebrew: Mekonoth) for the lavers.In the masoretic text, these are claimed to be four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high, [4] but the older Septuagint, and Josephus, both instead give the size as five cubits long, five cubits wide, and six cubits high.
[6] The setat was the basic unit of land measure and may originally have varied in size across Egypt's nomes. [20] Later, it was equal to one square khet, where a khet measured 100 cubits. The setat could be divided into strips one khet long and ten cubit wide (a kha). [2] [6] [37] During the Old Kingdom:
six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other side—the width of the tabernacle. [10] The vision was given on the 25th anniversary of Ezekiel's exile, "April 28, 573 BCE". [11] "Sanctuary" (Hebrew היכל): here "the main room of the temple", sometimes called the "holy place" (compare Exodus 26:33) [12]
The width of an adult human male finger tip is indeed about 2 centimetres. In English this unit has mostly fallen out of use, as do others based on the human arm: finger (7/6 digit), palm (4 digits), hand (16/3 digits), shaftment (8 digits), span (12 digits), cubit (24 digits) and ell (60 digits).
The palm was not a major unit in ancient Mesopotamia but appeared in ancient Israel as the tefah, [7] tepah, [8] or topah [8] (Hebrew: טפח, lit. "a spread"). [9] Scholars were long uncertain as to whether this was reckoned using the Egyptian or Babylonian cubit, [7] but now believe it to have approximated the Egyptian "Greek cubit", giving a value for the palm of about 74 mm or 2.9 in. [8]
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While both the Septuagint and Josephus' writings attributed only four cubits and a span (possibly about 6 feet 6 inches (198 cm) to Goliath's height, the Masoretic Text recorded Goliath's height as six cubits (possibly about 9 feet 6 inches (290 cm).